UCSD Distributed Cognition and Human-Computer Interaction Lab Research

September 20, 2010
Jim Hollan | UCSD

I want to accomplish two things in this talk. First, I will briefly overview current research efforts in the DCOG-HCI Lab: (1) Ethnographer++, a tool to assist digital cognitive ethnography, (2) Data Prism, a tool for annotating video and other time-based data, (3) ActivityTrails, a system for capturing PC activity and supporting search to aid context reinstatement, (4) paper and multi-touch interfaces for the Calit2 HIPerSpace Wall (a 280 megapixel display wall composed of 70 30″ monitors), and (5) assistive interfaces for deaf, senior, and aphasia populations. The goal of the first part of the talk is to introduce work of grad students who will be finishing soon. Second, I will describe a new effort we are just starting to further explore linking paper notes with digital content displayed in web browsers, Word, or Acrobat. The goal here is to get feedback and advice at an early stage of development.

Speaker Details

Jim Hollan co-directs the Distributed Cognition and Human-Computer Interaction Lab with Ed Hutchins and the Ubiquitous Computing and Social Dynamics research group with Bill Griswold and Barry Brown. His research explores the cognitive consequences of computationally-based media, with interests spanning across cognitive ethnography, distributed and embodied cognition, human-computer interaction, multi-scale information visualization, multimodal interaction, and software tools for visualization and interaction. Current work involves three intertwined activities: developing theory and methods, designing and implementing prototypes, and evaluating the effectiveness of systems to understand the broader design space in which they are situated. He is a member of the CHI Academy and in the past led the Intelligent Systems group at NPRDC and UCSD, directed the HCI Lab at MCC and the Computer Graphics and Interactive Media research group at Bellcore, and served as chair of Computer Science at the University of New Mexico.